Amy Kurzweil’s graphic memoir reproduces her grandparents’ letters, paintings, and documents.
Melissa Holbrook Pierson
Melissa Holbrook Pierson is the author of five books, including The Place You Love Is Gone. Her reviews and essays have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Daily Beast, Washington Post, The Nation, and others.
Helen Cammock’s Love Letter to New Orleans
In a vividly illustrated artist’s book, Cammock breaks through the fourth wall of the page to present the city as a composition of energies.
Demolishing the Categories of Word and Image
An anthology of poems, fiction, and translated essays combined with images explores the role of memory and the visual.
What Did the Onset of the Age of the Mass Shooting Mean to Americans?
Colette Brooks demonstrates how history unites us in both our private and public lives.
Photography and Its Hidden Power
Patrick Nathan suggests that capitalism benefits when human relationships are reduced to two-dimensional representations.
Victor Burgin’s Unclassifiable Take on the Passages of Art and Life
The artist’s landmark experimental text, Between, now reissued, remains one of a kind more than three decades after its publication.
Journalist Jeff Sharlet Turns His Attention to Visual Storytelling
Time and night form Sharlet’s central theme: people who inhabit the night, literally and figuratively.